{"id":34820,"date":"2021-06-02T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34820"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:31:53","slug":"sri-lanka-chemical-filled-x-press-pearl-ship-threatens-marine-life-and-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34820","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Chemical-filled X-Press Pearl ship threatens marine life and beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A sinking cargo ship filled with tonnes of chemicals and plastics is threatening marine life off the coast of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to tow the Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl into deeper water to limit its environmental impact failed, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of tonnes of oil could leak into the sea, with some warning it would &#8220;destroy the whole bottom of the sea&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57327300\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Oil spill fears as ship sinks off Sri Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57326893\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sinking cargo ship filled with tonnes of chemicals and plastics is threatening marine life off the coast of Sri Lanka. Efforts to tow the Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl into deeper water to limit its environmental impact failed, officials said. Hundreds of tonnes of oil could leak into the sea, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p09kcrbb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}